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2. A beleza abre portas: Beauty and the racialised body among black middle-class women in Salvador, Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gordon,Doreen (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Theory
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 203-218
- Notes:
- Beauty is constantly lived and incorporated as a meaningful social category in Brazil and intersects with racialised and gendered ways of belonging to the Brazilian nation. Article shows how middle-class women self-identifying as black embody and experience beauty and how, through practices and discourses centered on physical appearance, they both reinforce and challenge broader social and racial inequalities in Brazil.
3. Affective sex: Beauty, race and nation in the sex industry
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rivers-Moore,Megan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Theory
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 153-169
- Notes:
- Considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. While Costa Rica's national mythology has long focused on claims to white origins, sex tourists identify local women's ‘exoticism’ and non-whiteness as particularly appealing. Explores how women experience and manage their sexual attractiveness to foreign tourists in their daily lives and work.
4. Articulations of Eroticism and Race: Domestic Service in Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wade,Peter (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Theory
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(2) : 187-202
- Notes:
- The sexualisation of racially subordinated people has been linked to the exercise of power. This article focuses on an aspect of subordination related to the condition of being a servant, and the ‘domestication’ and ‘acculturation’ that domestic service implies in societies where black and indigenous people are often linked to ‘backwardness’. Perceived racial otherness, class subordination, gender, age and domesticated servitude together reinforce an erotic image of sexual availability, particularly in younger women.
5. Cuba: Race Matters
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Binns,Leory A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race, Gender & Class
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(3) : 333-345
- Notes:
- The Cuban journey on race relations denotes an adventure driven by ideology. A doctrine of equals and the need for consensus building towards national unity called for the reversal of disenfranchisement commonly practiced prior to the revolution. Public policy has affirmed a commitment to social integration of people of color yet the residue of bigotry still inflames the Cuban populace and stymies potential maturity among its people.
6. Entangled Roots: Race, Historical Literature, and Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Genova,Thomas (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- California: University of California, Santa Cruz
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- Examines in the transnational conversation on the place of Afro-descendants in the republican nation-state that occurred in New-World historical literature during the 19th century. Tracing the evolution of republican thought in the Americas from the classical liberalism of the independence period to the more democratic forms of government that took hold in the late 1800s, the pages that follow will chart the circulation of ideas regarding race and republican citizenship in the Atlantic World during the long nineteenth century, the changes that those ideas undergo as they circulate, and the racialized tensions that surface as they move between and among Europe and various locations throughout the Americas. Focusing on a diverse group of writers--including the anonymous Cuban author of Jicoténcal; the North Americans Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, and Mary Mann; the Argentines Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Eduarda Mansilla de García; the Dominican Manuel de Jesús Galván; the Haitian Émile Nau; and the Brazilian Euclides da Cunha.
7. In Brazil racism takes many hues
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pitts,Leonard (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 12-Jul 18, 2007
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Beacon
- Journal Title Details:
- 28 : 13
- Notes:
- In this, he's not unlike his counterparts in the United States, where black people also have an extensive vocabulary to describe variations in skin tone. In the United States, one can be "high yellow" (i.e., of very light skin); one can be "red" (i.e., with a reddish tint; one of Malcolm X's early nicknames was "Detroit Red"); or one can be any of a number of synonyms for dark. Like, for instance, "Smokey." In fact, the famous (and "high yellow") Motown singer William Robinson was given that nickname in affectionate irony by one of his father's friends - sort of like calling a fat guy Tiny. The same is not true in Brazil. And if the United States is a country where black people with light skin used to sometimes "pass," i.e., pretend to be white, well, in this country "passing is a national institution." So says Elisa Nascimento with a laugh. She is white, American-born and the wife of Abdias do Nascimento, a 90-year-old black Brazilian artist and political icon. And the insistence of some Brazilian blacks on "passing," she says, has political consequences in that it tends to distort statistics on black life. "The way racism works in Brazil . . . there is a hierarchy, and so people tend to identify themselves lighter than they necessarily would be." "It was a rough time," she says in her imperfect English. "For me, was impossible to live there. We could not be married. Why I married with a black guy, you know? So when I say to you that Brazil was different . . . even my first husband didn't think of himself as black. In Brazil, he was a Brazilian, even though he was black. He never thought of himself as someone different from me because he was another color."
8. Intersectional work and precarious positionings: Black middle-class parents and their encounters with schools in England
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vincent,Carol (Author), Rollock,Nicola (Author), Ball,Stephen (Author), and Gillborn,David (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Studies in Sociology of Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(3) : 259-276
- Notes:
- Reports on data drawn from a study exploring the educational strategies of 62 Black Caribbean heritage middle-class parents. Considers the roles of race and class in the shaping of parents' educational strategies.
9. Locational Returns to Human Capital Levels: The Case of black African and black Caribbean Immigrants
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Argeros,Grigoris (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: Fordham University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 155 p., The present dissertation examines nativity-status and place-of-birth-differences in locational outcomes among native-born black American, and foreign-born black Caribbean and black African households. The main objective is to evaluate the degree to which the spatial assimilation model, which was formulated to capture the experience of white European ethnic groups arriving to the U.S. during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, can describe the outcomes of black immigrant ethnic groups arriving to the U.S. in the late twentieth century. Using data from the five percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 2000 Census extracted from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), I investigate the degree to which native-born black Americans and foreign-born black Caribbeans and black Africans are able to translate their individual-level socioeconomic status attainments, such as income and educational levels, into residence in suburban versus central-city neighborhoods. In addition I also test to see if black immigrants' returns to their socioeconomic attainments differed from those of native-born blacks. This study contributes to the literature on immigrant socioeconomic and locational attainment in three ways. First, it revisits traditional residential assimilation theories, and attempts to identify the factors that enable black immigrants to reside in qualitatively different neighborhoods compared to those in which native-born black Americans reside. Second, it examines intra-ethnic black locational outcomes by place-of-birth/national origin status. Finally, up-to-date census data will provide an updated snapshot of black immigrants' socioeconomic and residential status attainments, an important endeavor given the large increase in size and diversity for this population.
10. Main themes in twentieth-century Afro-Hispanic Caribbean poetry: a literary sociology
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Roberts,Nicole (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 312 p., Argues for inclusion of more Afro-Hispanic poets in the Caribbean literary canon. This book offers an introductory overview of the literary tradition of Black writing in the Hispanic Caribbean. It also provides a survey of black poets.
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